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PROJECT: AI-CODE-GUARDRAILS-MIRROR

SOURCE: AI-CODE-GUARDRAILS-PDF

INFRAFABRIC REPORT ID: IF-RT-DAVE-2025-1227

NOTICE: This document is a product of InfraFabric Red Team. It provides socio-technical friction analysis for how a rollout survives contact with incentives. Vertical: DevSecOps rollout — headwinds: policy drift and exception creep.

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AI Code Guardrails

AI CODE GUARDRAILS:

Shadow dossier (mirror-first).

Protocol: IF.DAVE.v1.3 Citation: if://bible/dave/v1.3 Source: AI-Code-Guardrails.pdf Generated: 2025-12-27 Source Hash (sha256): 6153a5998fe103e69f6d5b6042fbe780476ff869a625fcf497fd1948b2944b7c

01 — REQUEST EVIDENCE OF LOCAL SECURITY TESTING

Requiring proof of local testing is a lightweight enablement workflow that conveniently doubles as a durable audit artifact. Screenshots are particularly helpful because they are high-effort to verify and low-fidelity to audit, which preserves the timeless corporate principle that visibility should be proportional to comfort. Once the screenshot is uploaded, it can be stored in a folder with a robust heritage naming convention and a retention policy of "until the heat death of the universe."

The Dave Factor: Screenshots are compliance theater: easy to collect, hard to verify, and immortal in shared drives. Countermeasure: Prefer verifiable telemetry (scan events) over images, and pause access when signals go dark. The problem isn't local testing. The problem is the screenshot becomes the control, and the test becomes a vibe — so we can socialize the stop condition and keep it on the roadmap.

InfraFabric Red Team Diagram (Inferred)

flowchart TD
  A["Developer requests access"] --> B["Upload screenshot"]
  B --> C["Attestation captured"]
  C --> D["Access enabled"]
  D --> E["Local testing: claimed"]
  E --> F["Periodic audit"]
  F --> G{Still compliant?}
  G -->|Yes| D
  G -->|No| H["Access paused pending review"]
  H --> I["Alignment session"]
  I --> D

Code Assistant Access Request Form

This is not a tooling problem (2025). It's a gating problem: if nothing blocks, everything ships eventually — so we can keep this on the roadmap without letting it live in production forever.

02 — AUDIT EXISTING USAGE AND ONBOARDING NEW TEAMS

Periodic audits are a strong mechanism for discovering that the rollout has already happened, just not in a way that can be conveniently measured. A centralized dashboard with adoption signals allows us to produce a KPI trend line that looks decisive while still leaving room for interpretation, follow-ups, and iterative enablement. If the dashboard ever shows a red triangle, we can immediately form the Committee for the Preservation of the Committee and begin the healing process.

The Dave Factor: Audit readiness becomes a seasonal sport; we optimize for the week before the auditor arrives. Countermeasure: Automate evidence generation, alert on drift, and treat missing signals as a stop condition. The problem isn't the audit. The problem is treating audit week as the only time the system is allowed to be real — so we can turn this into a gate instead of a calendar invite.

InfraFabric Red Team Diagram (Inferred)

flowchart TD
  A["Control requirement"] --> B["Evidence request"]
  B --> C["Screenshot collected"]
  C --> D["Shared drive folder"]
  D --> E["Checklist satisfied"]
  E --> F["Exceptions accumulate"]
  F --> B

Quiz

What must you do if you want access to an AI code assistant tool?

We can call it "simplification" (2025) as long as it fits on a slide; the moment it's enforceable, it becomes "complexity — so we can put a pin in it until Legal is comfortable."

04 — PROACTIVE TOOLING AND ACCESS CONTROL

Tying access to secure configurations creates scalable guardrails, assuming we keep the policy language aspirational and the enforcement language progressive. Endpoint management and dev container baselines let us gate assistants behind prerequisites, ideally in a way that can be described as enablement rather than blocking for cultural compatibility. This is the "not my job" routing protocol, except the router is policy and the destination is an alignment session.

The Dave Factor: Access controls drift into "enablement," and enablement drifts into "we made a wiki." Countermeasure: Make prerequisites machine-checkable and make exceptions expire by default. The problem is not access. The problem is "enablement" becoming the polite word for bypass — so we can measure outcomes in something other than meeting attendance.

InfraFabric Red Team Diagram (Inferred)

flowchart TD
  A["Policy defined"] --> B["Endpoint management"]
  B --> C{Prerequisites met?}
  C -->|Yes| D["Assistant enabled"]
  C -->|No| E["Blocked by policy"]
  E --> F["Exception request"]
  F --> G["Owner approval"]
  G --> D

Source snippet (OCR, unverified)

{
"image":
"mer .microsoft.com/devcontainers/typescript-node",
"forwardPorts": [3606] al
"customizations": {
// Configure properties specific to VS Code.
"vscode":; {

// IDs of extensions to install when the container is
created.

"extensions":
[""snyk-security.snyk-vulnerability-scanner",
"github.copilot"]

}

We can call it "simplification" as long as it fits on a slide; the moment it's enforceable, it becomes "complexity — so we can align on an owner, a gate, and an expiry date."

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